Photos favorited by 50sSNIPES

  • <p>May 28, 1947 shot of the Major Theatre projection booth at launch in Dallas.</p>
  • <p>1958 photo credit Classic Hollywood/Los Angeles/SFV Facebook page. Has Warners and Wiltern signage.</p>
  • <p>A sign of the times at the Cary Theatre during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 which closed it and all movie theatre in March of 2020. The marquee shows support from its Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>On July 7, 2021, The President Arrived In Crystal Lake. Here’s A Shot Of The Raue Welcoming the President To Crystal Lake.</p>
  • <p>Plymouth Theatre marquee on the right, beneath and beyond the LIQUOR sign. Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould in “M<em>A</em>S*H”. September 1970 photo courtesy Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.</p>
  • <p>February 10, 1978</p>
  • <p>To promote cartoons at Proctor’s Theatre in New Rochelle, original Paul Terry / Terrytoons artwork is on this standee promoting animation in 1940.</p>
  • <p>The Upper Darby American Legion Post helps promote “Annapolis Farewell” playing at the Tower Theatre in 1935.</p>
  • <p>A new Mickey Mouse cartoon gets a sell-out crowd to the Fox Theatre in 1931 in Hackensack.</p>
  • <p>A seven-foot homemade standee at the Colonial Theatre in the lobby in Allentown circa 1938 for “The Old Mill,” a Mickey Mouse cartoon short.</p>
  • <p>Artist Will Wills and manager Leo Rosen of the Strand Theatre in Syracuse promote the latest Mickey Mouse cartoon and James Cagney film in 1932.</p>
  • <p>An ad as the Center Theatre in 1947 with Chaplin shorts and the Tex Avery cartoon, “Red Hot Riding Hood,” they couldn’t miss.</p>
  • <p>Lobby shot of the Stuart Theatre as its manager creates a standee for a Bugs Bunny special show in 1942. If the kids bring a carrot, they get a drawing for one of five live bunnies to be given away during the matinee.</p>
  • <p>Grand opening ad at left as Cinema 1&2 launched in DeKalb on January 19, 1972 with the films, “Dirty Harry” and “McCabe & Mrs. Miller”. The cinemas closed on July 23, 1999 (signage and ad at left) with “The Mummy”, “An Ideal Husband”, “The Matrix” and “Tea with Mussolini”.</p>
  • <p>May 2013</p>
  • <p>1950’s “Free Coke” card with “Sprite Boy” image.</p>
  • <p>Recent photo of building still standing. We rented out the building for the Eleventh Hour Haunted House in 2001-2002 and had to relocate in order for the building to be torn down for the college but it never happened.</p>
  • <p>From the July 2, 1947 issue of The Pantagraph of Bloomington. Not my copyright, of course, and possibly in the public domain.</p>
  • <p>Opening scene from “Suddenly!” (1954).</p>
  • <p>July 23rd, 1948</p>
  • <p>Nov 26,1954 grand opening ad.</p>
  • <p>Aug 15,1947 Grand Opening Night</p>